Hotel Santa Maria Pucon
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The Lovely Pucon, Shadowed by Volcan Villarica
... crater... and a new football-sized rock that had been freshly spat out overnight! As if this wasn't reward enough, coupled with sites of many other snow capped volcanoes in the distance, we got to sled all the way down!! Ice picks being our only break, an hour and a half of sledging is any kid's - big or small! - dream!!
We were fortunate enough to arrive on a public holiday weekend in early October meaning that the Pucon-Villarica ski ...
Trek NP Villarrica
... zlate slunicko a neuveritelne vyhledy na tise doutnajici sopku Villarrica braly dech. Neco tak huste zarostleho, tak mekce zeleneho, jakoby cely kraj byl utkan z jedne huste vlny.
Se slunickem v zadech a mraky kdesi hluboko ve vnitrozemi jsme stoupali stale nizsim a nizsim podrostem, dalsi den uz se krajina kolem zmenila k nepoznani. Stala se suchou, misty podivne mrtvou, poprasenou zbytky lavy a popela. Hnedou a jinak hnedou, sypkou a prece zvlastnich tvaru. Ackoli ...
The next chapter
... to grab my stuff and move to a different seat for the new people getting on the bus at each stop. Finally, the bus drivers sorted their **** out and I was given a seat. The only catch... It was right next to the toilets which provided me with 6 hours of lovely smells every time someone ventured in there and came back out! Finally after the bus drive from hell, I managed to find a nice little hostel called La Bicicleta! Run by two nice American girls and a Chilean ...
Pucon
... running short and our relaxing rest at the lake turned into a quick pick and turn around. But not before Nicole could buy a raspberry and peach tart. She claims her sweet tooth is a genetic condition which must be tended to daily. Hmmm. Anyway, we had 45 min to get back to return the bikes. According to the guy at the bike shop, we should have been only 11km away. However, a road sign claimed it was 20km away. Hard to argue with a posted road sign. We arrived ...
On top of old smokey...
... not due to any problems. I slept for the first few hours until we reached the border where we have to get on and off the bus a couple of times to get stamped out of one country and then into the next. We are quite used to the dullness of these crossings, waiting in line and having our bags checked. The nice surprise about this one is that the immigration office was right next to a huge volcano! Amazing! The next few hours of the journey continued to be picturesque, ...
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